Jon Reus is an American multi-instrumentalist and new media artist who creates "critical instrumentations", using methods and sensibilities from folk-craft to remix the techniques of the digital orchestra into an eclectic bricolage of tools and traditions. Jon came to the Netherlands through a Fulbright Fellowship, developing...
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument designer, and conceptual artist. His sound work focuses on the subtle textural interplay of natural recordings and amplified electronic sounds generated by his invented instruments. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials that you might find...
Matthew Steinke – artist and composer [born 1972] – explores memory, perception, and behavior through performances and installations of robotic musical instruments. Each individual device participates in larger robotic ensembles performing programatic, generative, and human-machine compositions. His 2016 installation, “The Magnetosphere” combines digital controllers, electronics, and...
I create instruments that deal with the relationship between contradictory and contrasting elements: the digital and physical realms, noise and harmony, artificiality and organics. I made instruments for listening to wind and bees, exploring noise and the digital via livecoding, or experiencing audio feedback physically. My latest...
This PVC installation is a plastic, mobile and collective instrument suitable for both children and adults. The monumental installation with separate modules invites to casual improvisation and team play with strangers, independently of musical languages and age restrictions whatsoever. A fun sound installation that makes...
This is an amplified steel wire, where the performers' weight modulate the pitch of the string, which is played in various ways. Originally conceived as an installation ("Singing Swing"), a swing made of steel wire was played by visitors and amplified via headphones. It was...
Lucas Kramer builds instruments for experimental theater shows and his own performances. His main inspiration in building these instruments is the resonance and reverb they create. Techniques that are used in old studio equipment like spring and plate reverbs and tape echo's are being translated to...
Experimental musical instrument builder, improvising musician, composer, workshop leader, writer and piano technician with a long list of works, performances, exhibitions and collaborations since the 1980ies. [edgtf_button size="" type="" text="Website" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" link="http://bergmark.org/" target="_blank" color="" hover_color="" background_color="" hover_background_color="" border_color="" hover_border_color="" font_size="" font_weight="" margin=""]...
Dan Gibson (noisesinthenight) is a musician and sound artist. His work incorporates experimentation and improvisation and aims to explore the sonic subtlety, textural nuance and dynamic intensity found in natural soundscapes through the embodied practice of playing and building investigative hardware and software instruments. [edgtf_button size=""...
Digital Boxes (2017) is a versatile digital instrument constructed from cigar boxes. With microphones, sensors & objects hidden inside, the instrument serves as a vessel for hiding/revealing material during the pieces that it interprets. [edgtf_button size="" type="" text="Website" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" link="http://www.heatherfrasch.net/" target="_blank" color="" hover_color="" background_color=""...
